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Interview: Walmart’s David Glick discusses technology scale
17
Nov
2023

Interview: Walmart’s David Glick discusses technology scale

Retailer Walmart has a 25,000-strong IT team and it is big on technology. Enterprise business services is effectively the IT…

Royal Mail spent £10m on cyber measures after LockBit attack
16
Nov
2023

Royal Mail spent £10m on cyber measures after LockBit attack

Royal Mail’s parent organisation International Distributions Services plc (IDS) has revealed it spent a total of £10m in the six…

Ethical perspectives on ChatGPT | Computer Weekly
16
Nov
2023

Microsoft ignites chip journey with AI accelerators

As it ramps up its artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, Microsoft has developed a custom semiconductor, the Maia AI Accelerator, which…

Spotify and Google Cloud expand tech partnership for AI-led user experience improvement push
16
Nov
2023

Spotify and Google Cloud expand tech partnership for AI-led user experience improvement push

Music streaming service Spotify is digging deeper into the portfolio of its long-standing technology partner Google Cloud to explore how…

Manchester University students threatened by ransomware gang
16
Nov
2023

British Library’s Halloween cyber scare was ransomware

The British Library has confirmed that an IT outage that began at the end of October was indeed the result…

Interview: Dan Huddart, CTO, Homeprotect
16
Nov
2023

Interview: Dan Huddart, CTO, Homeprotect

In 2018, home insurance provider Homeprotect reached a huge milestone by completing the first version of an in-house data science…

Europe’s fastest supercomputer trains large language models in Finland
16
Nov
2023

Luxembourg-based cloud provider aims to transform the AI landscape in Europe

For the time being, most of the world’s artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is in the US. But Gcore’s hopes to change…

Suzy Lamplugh Trust treads path to improved cyber resilience
16
Nov
2023

Cancer Research uses AWS for payments and trial search function

Well-known charity Cancer Research has moved its donations platform on to AWS architecture, and has since been experimenting with ways…

Five key steps where there is a risk of fraud investigation
16
Nov
2023

Ransomware gang grasses up uncooperative victim to US regulator

In a development that observers are already calling predictable, the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware cartel appears to have added a new tactic…

SAP sustainability study reveals UK businesses lack funding
16
Nov
2023

SAP sustainability study reveals UK businesses lack funding

An annual sustainability study from SAP has revealed that 83% of UK leaders will maintain or increase their investment in…

Post Office scandal inquiry postpones more key witness hearings
16
Nov
2023

Post Office scandal inquiry postpones more key witness hearings

The Post Office scandal statutory inquiry has once more been forced to postpone sessions with key witnesses following the identification …

St Helens Council in Merseyside hit by ransomware attack
15
Nov
2023

BlackCat affiliate seen using malvertising to spread ransomware

An affiliate member of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware cartel has turned to malvertising techniques beloved of fraudsters to compromise its victims,…